Chicken feeder and supporting frame



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WALTER ELLMAN, OF NORTH BRANCH, NEW YORK.

CHICKEN FEEDER AND SUPPORTING FRAME.

Application filed November 9, 1926.

This invention relates to poultry feeding devices and has specialreference to a chickenfeeder and supporting frame ar ranged. to hold thefeeder proper oil of the ground.

One important object of the invention is to provide an improved chickenfeeder wherein the feeder is supported on a knock; down frame and soelevated from the ground that the poultry cannot scratch dirt into thefeeder nor can mud splash there into during heavy rain storms as iscommon with the types of feeders that rest directly on the ground.

A second important object of the invention to provide a novel feeder ofthis description wherein the frame is equipped with adjustable perchesfor the poultry so that the feeder may be used for different sizes ofchickens, it being natural that sn'ialler chickens and the smallerbreeds, such as bantams. require the perches to be closer to the feedingtroughs than the larger breeds, such as cochins and the like.

With the above and other objects in View will be hereinafter apparent,the inveir tion consists in general of certain novel details ofconstruction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate likeparts in the scveal views, and:

l igurc 1 a, side, elevation of the improved poultry feeder and itsstand.

Figure 2 is an end view thereof.

l igure 3 is an enlarged detail section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure l is an enlarged detail section on the line l-d of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a detail perspective showing one of the end frames of thedevice.

Figure 6 an enlarged elevation of the upper part of one end of thefeeder.

Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 6 showing the opposite end.

Figure 8 is a bottom view of cover at the same end as Figure 6.

Figure l) is a bottom view'of the feeder cover at the same end of Figure7.

In the construction of this feeder there is provided a bottom having aninverted vishaped central portion 10 extending longitudinally of thefeeder and from the edge of this central portion the bottom extends thefeeder moved with ease.

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in horizontal portions 11 and is then inclined upwardly and outwardly asat 12 to form the feeding troughs. Each of these troughs is providedWltl an upwardly and inwardly extending guard flange 18. At each end thefeeder is closed by an end plate let having inwardly inclined side edgesbetween which extend the side members 15, the lower edges of whichterminate in spaced relation to the flat portions 11. Gage plateslG formdownwardly extending continuations of the sides 15 and are secured tosaid sides by bolts 17 which pass through slots 18 in the gage plates sothat the amount of feed flowing from the body of the feeder can beregulated.

The upper edges of the cud plates 1-,: are

beveled to support the end portions of a peaked roof or cover 19extending longitudinally of the feeder and provided on its longitudinaledges with downwardly ex tending flanges 20. One of the end plates 14.provided with an outwardly extending tongue 21 which engages over crosswire 22 upon the cover being placed in position. This construction canbe well seen in Figures 6 and 8 and holds this end of the cover securelyto the feeder. At the other end the cover is provided with an eye 22which is engageable by a pivoted hook 28 carried on the remaining endplate. This affords means for securing this end of the cover,

firmer to the body. It will. be noted that by freeing the hook from itseye the cover can. be slid longitudinally and removed so that the feederproper can be readily tilled. l lxtending longitudinally of the ridge aguard plate 2% which is pivoted to tilt upon a fowl attempting to perchthereon.

This feeder proper supported on a frame of knock-down character and thisframe consists of a pair of inverted U- shaped end members 25 havingtheir legs braced by transverse braces 26. The two end frame members areconnected below their tops by longitudinal ties 27 bolted to the framemembers so that they may be re- Diagonal braces 28 are likewise boltedto the end frames and to the tics 27 to stiffen the frames at thesepoints. The end frame members and ties 26 and 27 are preferably made oflike angle iron and each end frame is provided on each leg with a seriesof spaced bolt receiving openings 29 so that bolts 30 may be selectivelyinserted therein to hold the transverse angle memtin bers 31 of anad'ustahle erch unit these 1 V 7 inen'ihers ill supporting perch hoards52 bolted thereto. By this means the perch unit may be moved to higheror lower posi tion and the transrerse bolted parts of the frane mar hetaken a 'rart for )aclnn b lVith the feeder as thus constructed it ispreferred to bolt, as at 33, the f-eederproper to the fame and it willhe seer= that the feeder proper so supported ahore the ground that 'hechickens cannot eer: tch dirt therein nor can nuad splash into thetroughs. Furthermore. the quantity of feed may be regulated by the gageplates 16 and the tran e adapted by the adjustahle perch unit to Varioussizes of fowls.

There has thus been provided a simple and etiicient device of the kinddescribed and for the purpose epecilied.

It is obvious that minor ehang'es may' be resaeei made in the form andconstruction of the invention without departing from the material spiritthereof. desired to confine the inventiol'i to the exact form hereinshown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properlycome within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

In a poultry feeder, a body having end plates with their top edgesarranged in inverted V-shape, a peaked roof plati-rresting on said topedges, a finger extending outwardl from one end plate, a loop on saidroof engagezlhle beneath said linger, a hook pivoted to the remainingend plate, and an eye carried lrv the roof and cneageable by said hook.

In testiino 1y whereof I attix my signature.

WALTER ELLMAN.

It is not, therefore,

